Peter Higgs

British physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Peter Higgs - Scientists & Innovators born May 29th, 1929
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A British physicist, significant contributions include the theoretical prediction of the Higgs boson particle. The existence of this particle was confirmed by experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, leading to the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 2013. Higgs also held a professorship at the University of Edinburgh and participated in various theoretical physics research endeavors over his career, shaping the field of particle physics.

Predicted the Higgs boson particle

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013

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